Is Your Website Secure?
The growth of the internet has provided website owners with unique business opportunities. Unfortunately, that growth also attracts those who want to steal your website files and sensitive information. As your website grows and it moves to the top ten page ranking on the major search engines, it will also be that much easier for bandits to find your website. They can then easily change your files, damage them or steal them if you do not have website security.
Quite often, when people are creating their website, they tend to forget about adding website protection and security. It is critical that one adds homepage protection and security, as well as, individual web page protection and security.If information security is not implemented in your website design strategy, one can get leeching and hotlinking of important digital files and images, as well as, illegal downloading of your digital products.
If they are selling through a secure website, such as PayPal, they expect this is enough. Unfortunately, this is the wrong attitude to take. Sure, your money may be safe, but it is the loss of potential money that you need to worry about. You must have overall website protection and security to prevent hacking attempts that can download your digital products illegally and cause you loss of income potential. You must add website protection and security if you are to have information security to prevent illegal downloads of all your digital files and images.
If you do not have website protection and security on your download site, people are going to download your product without paying for it which could be in the 1,000’s of dollars that you will never see. You need to add loss of money prevention in order to stop potential income loss.
You need to know how to prevent web surfers from purposely or accidentally hacking your website. You need to add website protection and security monitoring tools to hide your product links, minimize website security threats, as well as, advise you on website security issues and the security actions to take.
You must be able to retrieve the following security information from your website:
1) Visitor Internet IP address
2) The date and time your visitors arrived at your website
3) The domain or web page that your visitors came from to access your web pages
4) The total number of your product downloads
5) Any illegal product downloads
You need to learn how to stop hotlinking and leeching of your digital download products in order to get internet website protection and security. Is getting hacked a risk you can afford to take? It could cost you and your business, ten’s of thousands of dollars. Website security is a critical component of the success of any web based business.
You also need to learn how to detect and fight against iframe injections. An iframe injection is an injection of one or more iframe tags into a page’s content. The iframe typically does something bad, such as downloading an executable application that contains a virus or worm in it… something that compromises a visitor’s system.
Iframe injection can cause your website to be flagged by the major search engines, such as Google, as being a “bad” site because it is hosting “malware”. When your site appears on the search page, it will be marked with a note indicating visitors could be at risk if they continue to your website. This could essentially remove all traffic to your site causing you thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
There are plenty of people on the internet trying to sell you high price security along with monthly fees, but none tell you about the security features that are readily available to you on the internet involving minimum or no costs to you.
Source by Joseph Schembri
